This is a very short documentary that I didn't find all that interesting and I also find it to be said a lot in other documentries.
It's about the sardine run on the coast of Africa and the components that it makes the ocean the ocean without the interference of human technology.
The Sardine run involves the Sardines moving up the coast of Africa and this creates an influx of dolphins, sharks, whales, and birds that all feed off of sardines.
Friday, March 21, 2014
Movie: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
They probably should have done these before they made the Lord of the Rings, but I guess I can't complain. I liked the movie, not a lot, but I didn't think it was terrible and didn't hate it.
So Bilbo is jumping out of a quiet, calm life in the Shire and of being a hobbit, to being an adventurer to the city under the mountain with a bunch of dwarves and one very persuasive wizard.
They are going to the city under the mountain to reclaim the dwarves land from the dragon Smaug.
It's not going to be an easy journey. They find that orcs are after them not long after their journey begins, but before this trouble starts, they have to deal with golems. They are about to be cooked when Gandalf cracks a stone and makes the sun appear, the golems are now stone themselves.
Now they are being chased by orcs, no where is safe. While trying to get a good night sleep they find themselves in the goblin king's domain. Bilbo manages to get away, and this is where his adventure really begins.
Down into a cave, that's where Bilbo finds himself. He's not alone. A very strange wailing and creature is down here too, but before he finds him, he finds a ring... a gold ring which he puts in his pocket.
Golem is angry, and well comes off a little hungry. I think he would eat just about anything... including Bilbo. They strike a deal. A game of riddles, the one who gets it wrong, loses. It ends when Bilbo is feeling his pocket and murmurs "what have I got in my pocket." Golem thinks this is a real test, and can't figure it out. Bilbo runs away and the ring slips on his finger. When it does, he's invisible; he escapes the cave through this.
The dwarves escape with the help of Gandalf. They can't find Bilbo, and some are worried, and some are not, but then Bilbo appears all safe and sound.
The Goblin King isn't happy that dwarves escaped from him, so he sends orcs (goblins) after them. They get trapped by them and their wargs. They climb up a tree and Gandalf calls for the eagles.
Thorin (the lead dwarf) goes down the tree to fight the lead orc and is getting beat up pretty bad, when Bilbo steps in and then the eagles come.
This is where this movie ends.
So Bilbo is jumping out of a quiet, calm life in the Shire and of being a hobbit, to being an adventurer to the city under the mountain with a bunch of dwarves and one very persuasive wizard.
They are going to the city under the mountain to reclaim the dwarves land from the dragon Smaug.
It's not going to be an easy journey. They find that orcs are after them not long after their journey begins, but before this trouble starts, they have to deal with golems. They are about to be cooked when Gandalf cracks a stone and makes the sun appear, the golems are now stone themselves.
Now they are being chased by orcs, no where is safe. While trying to get a good night sleep they find themselves in the goblin king's domain. Bilbo manages to get away, and this is where his adventure really begins.
Down into a cave, that's where Bilbo finds himself. He's not alone. A very strange wailing and creature is down here too, but before he finds him, he finds a ring... a gold ring which he puts in his pocket.
Golem is angry, and well comes off a little hungry. I think he would eat just about anything... including Bilbo. They strike a deal. A game of riddles, the one who gets it wrong, loses. It ends when Bilbo is feeling his pocket and murmurs "what have I got in my pocket." Golem thinks this is a real test, and can't figure it out. Bilbo runs away and the ring slips on his finger. When it does, he's invisible; he escapes the cave through this.
The dwarves escape with the help of Gandalf. They can't find Bilbo, and some are worried, and some are not, but then Bilbo appears all safe and sound.
The Goblin King isn't happy that dwarves escaped from him, so he sends orcs (goblins) after them. They get trapped by them and their wargs. They climb up a tree and Gandalf calls for the eagles.
Thorin (the lead dwarf) goes down the tree to fight the lead orc and is getting beat up pretty bad, when Bilbo steps in and then the eagles come.
This is where this movie ends.
Documentary: Blackfish
This documentary is great, it really shows you the difference of Orcas in the wild and Orcas in captivity.
There are no documented human deaths by Orcas in the wild, but there are many injuries and deaths realted to those Orcas in captivity.
After watching this documentary, I can't blame them. Being shoved into a small container all day and night, never being able to be with my family, having the only family I have being taken away from me. I would go after whoever did that to me too!
Tilikum is the largest Ocra in captivity, and he is also one of the most dangerous. His story is described in this documentary, leading to the death of one of the best trainers SeaWorld ever had.
Tilikum was a very young male orca when captured, like all captured male orcas, his dorsal fin soon collapsed over on him. He started in a small place like SeaWorld but much smaller, therefore much smaller places to stay. He was crammed into a tiny box with two older females who fought with him a lot. He would come out the next morning with cuts all over his black skin.
When he wouldn't perform a trick the way the other, more trained orcas, did, he would lose out on dinner. So now he's starving. The last time he was seen in this place was the last time a trainer would too. He grabbed the trainer and dragged it to the bottom, drowning the trainer who was supposed to be close to him.
He then went to SeaWorld, SeaWorld didn't release him to do tricks, and not many of the trainers understood why, but apparently the directors at SeaWorld did.
They go through showing mother's being pulled away from their calfs and crying for nights and being angry about their loss.
Orcas are social and much like humans in the way they have different languages around the world. Not every Orca has the same language and thus many in captivity don't get along. I wouldn't get along with someone I couldn't understand either.
One day, the female orca's didn't want to perform correctly, so they brought Tilikum out to perform, and when he performed a trick and ignored the whistle to stop, he was denied a fish. Oh no...
He later dragged the trainer around the pool by her arm, she died.
This lead to OSHA saying it was not safe for SeaWorld trainers to be in the pool with Orcas, and they are no longer able to be in the pool with Orcas.
However, poor Tilikum is still there in a tiny pool not getting any social interacting and only there to breed..
I'm just gonna say, just let him go! Just let him live out the rest of his life in peace instead of being in a jail cell for striking out against those who caused him so much harm
There are no documented human deaths by Orcas in the wild, but there are many injuries and deaths realted to those Orcas in captivity.
After watching this documentary, I can't blame them. Being shoved into a small container all day and night, never being able to be with my family, having the only family I have being taken away from me. I would go after whoever did that to me too!
Tilikum is the largest Ocra in captivity, and he is also one of the most dangerous. His story is described in this documentary, leading to the death of one of the best trainers SeaWorld ever had.
Tilikum was a very young male orca when captured, like all captured male orcas, his dorsal fin soon collapsed over on him. He started in a small place like SeaWorld but much smaller, therefore much smaller places to stay. He was crammed into a tiny box with two older females who fought with him a lot. He would come out the next morning with cuts all over his black skin.
When he wouldn't perform a trick the way the other, more trained orcas, did, he would lose out on dinner. So now he's starving. The last time he was seen in this place was the last time a trainer would too. He grabbed the trainer and dragged it to the bottom, drowning the trainer who was supposed to be close to him.
He then went to SeaWorld, SeaWorld didn't release him to do tricks, and not many of the trainers understood why, but apparently the directors at SeaWorld did.
They go through showing mother's being pulled away from their calfs and crying for nights and being angry about their loss.
Orcas are social and much like humans in the way they have different languages around the world. Not every Orca has the same language and thus many in captivity don't get along. I wouldn't get along with someone I couldn't understand either.
One day, the female orca's didn't want to perform correctly, so they brought Tilikum out to perform, and when he performed a trick and ignored the whistle to stop, he was denied a fish. Oh no...
He later dragged the trainer around the pool by her arm, she died.
This lead to OSHA saying it was not safe for SeaWorld trainers to be in the pool with Orcas, and they are no longer able to be in the pool with Orcas.
However, poor Tilikum is still there in a tiny pool not getting any social interacting and only there to breed..
I'm just gonna say, just let him go! Just let him live out the rest of his life in peace instead of being in a jail cell for striking out against those who caused him so much harm
Book: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
I had seen the movie years before I read this book. I actually liked doing that, this time around. It gave me a sense of what all the characters looked like and sounded like, although J.K. Roling does a great job at describing the scenes, the characters, the voices.
If you've ever seen the movie, then this book is like a play script for it.
Harry Potter is a young wizard who is being raised by his mother's sister's family. They hateanything magic and therefore they do not treat Harry very well.
When Harry Potter is 11 years old. Hogwarts (a school for witches and wizards) send Harry an acceptance letter, asking him to go. The Dursleys (his mother's sister's family) refuse to let him go, but through a little persuasion of a very large character, Hagrid, they quickly let him go.
When Harry enters the magical world, he is now all of a sudden famous, everyone wants to be his friend, something he is not used to. But he's only famous because he was able to drive off an evil force when he was just a little baby, but did Lord Voldemort really die?
There is a lot of things Harry needs to get used to and he makes friends with Ron and Herminie who help him get through his first year at Hogwarts.
These three get into a lot of trouble, trying to solve the mystery of what is in the forbidden corridor that has a large three headed dog guarding it.
They automatically want to go to accuse a Professor... Professor Snape because of his attitude of hate towards Harry, although everyone says he is like that to everyone. But could it possibly be someone else?
After finding out about the Sorcerer's Stone and it's ability to make someone immortal, the three kids find out that Snape wants the stone to bring back Lord Voldemort.
Snape has to get through all of the traps and enchantments guarding the sorcerer's stone and Fluffy is the first step, how do you get by a three headed dog? Only Hagrid knows that answer.
At the end of the book, the three realize they have got to go through the traps to stop Snape from getting the Sorcerer's Stone. They are reluctant as they have already gotten into tons of trouble this year because of this one thing, mostly caused by Malfoy, a boy in a different house then they who thinks he is better then the three of them.
Regardless, they have to go, they have to stop Snape. After playing a flute to Fluffy, burning through plants, flying through keys, playing chess, drinking potions that could be poison, Harry is able to go through the last door to find not Snape trying to get the Stone from the mirror, but someone no one would think of... Professor Quirrel. But something is different about him, he's no longer acting shy and studdering, and he reveals that Lord Voldemort called him to his side to gain power.
Where is Lord Voldemort? Well wait for Quirrel to take his turban off... yeah that's right the back of his head... Gross!!!
It's alright, Harry's got this. For some reason, Quirrel can't touch Harry, later, Dumbledore tells him it's because of his love that Quirrel couldn't touch Harry.
Through their efforts and success at stopping Voldemort, Harry and his friends win their house the house cup, which is a huge deal.
If you've ever seen the movie, then this book is like a play script for it.
Harry Potter is a young wizard who is being raised by his mother's sister's family. They hateanything magic and therefore they do not treat Harry very well.
When Harry Potter is 11 years old. Hogwarts (a school for witches and wizards) send Harry an acceptance letter, asking him to go. The Dursleys (his mother's sister's family) refuse to let him go, but through a little persuasion of a very large character, Hagrid, they quickly let him go.
When Harry enters the magical world, he is now all of a sudden famous, everyone wants to be his friend, something he is not used to. But he's only famous because he was able to drive off an evil force when he was just a little baby, but did Lord Voldemort really die?
There is a lot of things Harry needs to get used to and he makes friends with Ron and Herminie who help him get through his first year at Hogwarts.
These three get into a lot of trouble, trying to solve the mystery of what is in the forbidden corridor that has a large three headed dog guarding it.
They automatically want to go to accuse a Professor... Professor Snape because of his attitude of hate towards Harry, although everyone says he is like that to everyone. But could it possibly be someone else?
After finding out about the Sorcerer's Stone and it's ability to make someone immortal, the three kids find out that Snape wants the stone to bring back Lord Voldemort.
Snape has to get through all of the traps and enchantments guarding the sorcerer's stone and Fluffy is the first step, how do you get by a three headed dog? Only Hagrid knows that answer.
At the end of the book, the three realize they have got to go through the traps to stop Snape from getting the Sorcerer's Stone. They are reluctant as they have already gotten into tons of trouble this year because of this one thing, mostly caused by Malfoy, a boy in a different house then they who thinks he is better then the three of them.
Regardless, they have to go, they have to stop Snape. After playing a flute to Fluffy, burning through plants, flying through keys, playing chess, drinking potions that could be poison, Harry is able to go through the last door to find not Snape trying to get the Stone from the mirror, but someone no one would think of... Professor Quirrel. But something is different about him, he's no longer acting shy and studdering, and he reveals that Lord Voldemort called him to his side to gain power.
Where is Lord Voldemort? Well wait for Quirrel to take his turban off... yeah that's right the back of his head... Gross!!!
It's alright, Harry's got this. For some reason, Quirrel can't touch Harry, later, Dumbledore tells him it's because of his love that Quirrel couldn't touch Harry.
Through their efforts and success at stopping Voldemort, Harry and his friends win their house the house cup, which is a huge deal.
Documentary: National Geographic: Ultimate Cat
I am a huge big cat fan. Love anything to do with them. They are magnificent creatures and so beautiful, dangerous, but beautiful.
That being said, I didn't really like this documentary about them. The way it was formated, I felt it is all about their dangerous side, although I think their intentions were to show how these dangerous features make them supreme, but I really just didn't like the way it played out, felt too negative.
They went through the different parts of the big cats that make them formidable creatures. They did not really talk much about cheetahs, but leopards, lions, and tigers really.
Their claws
Their jaws
Their muscles
Their skull
Everything about a big cat is what makes them able to do what they do.
That being said, I didn't really like this documentary about them. The way it was formated, I felt it is all about their dangerous side, although I think their intentions were to show how these dangerous features make them supreme, but I really just didn't like the way it played out, felt too negative.
They went through the different parts of the big cats that make them formidable creatures. They did not really talk much about cheetahs, but leopards, lions, and tigers really.
Their claws
Their jaws
Their muscles
Their skull
Everything about a big cat is what makes them able to do what they do.
Documentary: National Geographic: Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West
I haven't always loved history, at least not when I'm at school. I have liked certain History Professors I had, but a lot of time hearing just doesn't give you the best image. That's why I like a lot of these documentaries.
Everyone in the United States know that Lewis and Clark are the two that went west all the way to the Pacific. It was a dangerous journey at this time and no one in their time expected them to return.
This documentary explains this. It goes through the different parts that Lewis and Clark go through. They start when Lewis and Clark are asked to travel west until they reach the Pacific ocean. They accept the challenge, and it is just that.
Through boat problems; boats running into logs and flipping and all of those dangers. Then problems with bears and sliding off cliffs. It was a challenge to navigate the landscape they were to cross.
If the landscape wasn't hard enough they had to deal with Native Americans too, not all were hostile, but telling these natives that their land no longer belonged to them, didn't exactly create friends.
One Native American tribe helped Lewis and Clark in their journey by giving them a guide and another member, Sacagawea who had a son during their expedition.
Woman or not, Sacagawea helped Lewis and Clark imensely during their journey and this documentary explained that as well.
Through rough turns they finally made it all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Time to head back... Fame and Glory here we come!
Everyone in the United States know that Lewis and Clark are the two that went west all the way to the Pacific. It was a dangerous journey at this time and no one in their time expected them to return.
This documentary explains this. It goes through the different parts that Lewis and Clark go through. They start when Lewis and Clark are asked to travel west until they reach the Pacific ocean. They accept the challenge, and it is just that.
Through boat problems; boats running into logs and flipping and all of those dangers. Then problems with bears and sliding off cliffs. It was a challenge to navigate the landscape they were to cross.
If the landscape wasn't hard enough they had to deal with Native Americans too, not all were hostile, but telling these natives that their land no longer belonged to them, didn't exactly create friends.
One Native American tribe helped Lewis and Clark in their journey by giving them a guide and another member, Sacagawea who had a son during their expedition.
Woman or not, Sacagawea helped Lewis and Clark imensely during their journey and this documentary explained that as well.
Through rough turns they finally made it all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Time to head back... Fame and Glory here we come!
Movie: The Hobit: The Desolation of Smaug
I read this book and I really did like the book, but the book I felt was a lot more happier then what Peter Jackson makes the movie. Granted had I not read the book I wouldn't have had anything to complain about. It is a very good movie and recommend it highly, you just have to remember that it's not exactly the book.
It starts off where the first movie left off. The group is just getting off of the Owls and they are still trying to get away from the pack of orcs coming after them. They go to stay at a house, problem is a bear is chasing them into the house, they need to close that door before he gets there. This bear, is actually the friend that keeps them safe and helps them get to their next destination. The forest. Gandalf cannot follow them into the forest.
Gandalf goes off on a mission to find out who this new enemy is that is appearing. He and his other wizard friend, Radagast, go to a tomb where the nine men with the rings (the ones they mention in the Lord of the RIngs) The tombs reveal that they, well aren't there.
Back with the dwarves and Bilbo, they get lost pretty early and when Blibo climbs a tree to see if he can find anything, when he comes back down spiders are out and getting at the dwarves. After being all wrapped up, and then getting out and the spiders are coming at them, elves chime in and kill the spiders and take the dwarves with them back to their kingdom. They don't get Bilbo, however, who uses his ring to get into their locked doors.
Gandalf is now at a very creepy like castle where he tells Radagast to leave and tell the other what they have found out and enters the place alone. He is surrounded by orcs and although he is able to get away from them he comes upon a very dark force that burns his staff and is actually Sauron.
Bilbo gets the dwarves out of their cages by stealing the keys and then brings them to the basement and puts them in empty barrels that are dumped into the rivier. They are soon pursued by orcs and those orcs are then pursued by elves that are actually after dwarves, but refuse to let orcs live in their territory. They get to the end of the river when they meet a barge man that they ask to take them with him. He does at a price. They need a ride and weapons now.
Back in the lake city, Bard doesn't have the weapons that the dwarves want and so they go to the weaponry to get the weapons they want and get caught. Although through a wonderfully formed speech, the dwarves are able to get to the mountain before the last light on Durin's day. A few of the Dwarves have to stay behind. The brothers stay behind because the one is injured, one is to stay with the sick, and the last missed the boat.
At the mountain, they cannot find the key hole and the sun is quickly setting, but then when all hope is lost, the moon rises and there is the key hole, that Bilbo finds.
Now Bilbo is to go into the mountain, face the dragon and find the arkenstone. He puts his ring on, but the dragon, Smaug, can smell him, although he sees the stone he can't seem to get close to it because of the dragon. When he gets back to the group, the dragon comes after all of them. This is the best part of this movie, in my opinon. The special effects used look amazing and they do very well with it. At the end the dragon is flying over laketown, scary.
The movie itself wasn't bad, but as I said before, I don't really think it should be called the hobit, there's too much in it that makes it a Lord of the Rings movie rather than a Hobbit movie.
It starts off where the first movie left off. The group is just getting off of the Owls and they are still trying to get away from the pack of orcs coming after them. They go to stay at a house, problem is a bear is chasing them into the house, they need to close that door before he gets there. This bear, is actually the friend that keeps them safe and helps them get to their next destination. The forest. Gandalf cannot follow them into the forest.
Gandalf goes off on a mission to find out who this new enemy is that is appearing. He and his other wizard friend, Radagast, go to a tomb where the nine men with the rings (the ones they mention in the Lord of the RIngs) The tombs reveal that they, well aren't there.
Back with the dwarves and Bilbo, they get lost pretty early and when Blibo climbs a tree to see if he can find anything, when he comes back down spiders are out and getting at the dwarves. After being all wrapped up, and then getting out and the spiders are coming at them, elves chime in and kill the spiders and take the dwarves with them back to their kingdom. They don't get Bilbo, however, who uses his ring to get into their locked doors.
Gandalf is now at a very creepy like castle where he tells Radagast to leave and tell the other what they have found out and enters the place alone. He is surrounded by orcs and although he is able to get away from them he comes upon a very dark force that burns his staff and is actually Sauron.
Bilbo gets the dwarves out of their cages by stealing the keys and then brings them to the basement and puts them in empty barrels that are dumped into the rivier. They are soon pursued by orcs and those orcs are then pursued by elves that are actually after dwarves, but refuse to let orcs live in their territory. They get to the end of the river when they meet a barge man that they ask to take them with him. He does at a price. They need a ride and weapons now.
Back in the lake city, Bard doesn't have the weapons that the dwarves want and so they go to the weaponry to get the weapons they want and get caught. Although through a wonderfully formed speech, the dwarves are able to get to the mountain before the last light on Durin's day. A few of the Dwarves have to stay behind. The brothers stay behind because the one is injured, one is to stay with the sick, and the last missed the boat.
At the mountain, they cannot find the key hole and the sun is quickly setting, but then when all hope is lost, the moon rises and there is the key hole, that Bilbo finds.
Now Bilbo is to go into the mountain, face the dragon and find the arkenstone. He puts his ring on, but the dragon, Smaug, can smell him, although he sees the stone he can't seem to get close to it because of the dragon. When he gets back to the group, the dragon comes after all of them. This is the best part of this movie, in my opinon. The special effects used look amazing and they do very well with it. At the end the dragon is flying over laketown, scary.
The movie itself wasn't bad, but as I said before, I don't really think it should be called the hobit, there's too much in it that makes it a Lord of the Rings movie rather than a Hobbit movie.
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